Saturday, January 24, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Independant Thought
Quote from Jill as a comment on a Previous Blog of mine :
"Good for you Lisa. That's a great idea. You should add generating your own electricity and making paper to the list. Seriously. Get off the grid. Michael and I are planning on moving into his rental property in a year and making it completely green. We're talking about recycling the grey water, turning the back yard into various gardens- fruit, root, herb, salad, flower, get solar panels, rental suite or B&B in the bsmt, etc.."
This got me thinking even more about a mini-project I'm working on:
"I'm doing a project on "skills" we've lost in the last century. For example: keeping a root cellar, darning socks, knitting our own dishcloths, hanging clothes out to dry, growing our own food, etc... With the way the economy is going we have to start relying on ourselves and our community more than just turning to consumerism and wastefulness.
If you don't like veggies you can go suck an egg :P"
To further this thought I began writing yet another response to that blog and decided I should just blog it. Weird thought, eh?
I actually asked Ed Begley Jr about the whole alternative power thing in Vancouver last year at the EPIC Trade Show and he suggested getting both solar panels and a vertical wind turbine . I was thinking it would be really interesting to look at converting a wind turbine to work on rainfall. It would have a funnel type contraption on the top of it that would collect water and direct it at the "fan" blades of the turbine to turn them on rainy days, then the water from that would go through a grey water filtration unit or into a rain barrel for watering your garden or whatnot.
I'm jealous really Jill, let me know how your plan progresses because it interests me greatly. For now I'm going to focus on how to manage some independence while renting: Chris wants to build me two 1.5'x6'x1.5' planter boxes for our back deck so I can put in some food plant beds. I'm definitely going to be doing some paper projects in the near future (cards mostly) with leftover handmade paper scraps from the gift room (Butterfly paper is too big when it comes in so they cut it down) and I want to look into getting an angora rabbit and a spinning wheel one day (probably when I have my own property) as they shed tremendous amounts of super soft wool ideal for spinning and are extremely affectionate.
Possibilities are endless and I'd like to explore as many as I can right now.
"Good for you Lisa. That's a great idea. You should add generating your own electricity and making paper to the list. Seriously. Get off the grid. Michael and I are planning on moving into his rental property in a year and making it completely green. We're talking about recycling the grey water, turning the back yard into various gardens- fruit, root, herb, salad, flower, get solar panels, rental suite or B&B in the bsmt, etc.."
This got me thinking even more about a mini-project I'm working on:
"I'm doing a project on "skills" we've lost in the last century. For example: keeping a root cellar, darning socks, knitting our own dishcloths, hanging clothes out to dry, growing our own food, etc... With the way the economy is going we have to start relying on ourselves and our community more than just turning to consumerism and wastefulness.
If you don't like veggies you can go suck an egg :P"
To further this thought I began writing yet another response to that blog and decided I should just blog it. Weird thought, eh?
I actually asked Ed Begley Jr about the whole alternative power thing in Vancouver last year at the EPIC Trade Show and he suggested getting both solar panels and a vertical wind turbine . I was thinking it would be really interesting to look at converting a wind turbine to work on rainfall. It would have a funnel type contraption on the top of it that would collect water and direct it at the "fan" blades of the turbine to turn them on rainy days, then the water from that would go through a grey water filtration unit or into a rain barrel for watering your garden or whatnot.
I'm jealous really Jill, let me know how your plan progresses because it interests me greatly. For now I'm going to focus on how to manage some independence while renting: Chris wants to build me two 1.5'x6'x1.5' planter boxes for our back deck so I can put in some food plant beds. I'm definitely going to be doing some paper projects in the near future (cards mostly) with leftover handmade paper scraps from the gift room (Butterfly paper is too big when it comes in so they cut it down) and I want to look into getting an angora rabbit and a spinning wheel one day (probably when I have my own property) as they shed tremendous amounts of super soft wool ideal for spinning and are extremely affectionate.
Possibilities are endless and I'd like to explore as many as I can right now.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Get Back To Your Roots
Since we went shopping in Richmond at all of the farms at the end of August last year I've been storing root veggies in my pantry. After four months, of what's left, 2 squash are still looking great, the organic garlic bulbs are still firm and I've gone through everything else we got. It's brilliant! I'm quite happy that I've beat the need to keep squash in the fridge. I'm sure it helps that the pantry is located near a wall with little insulation. I'm going to maintain this project through the Summer keeping potatoes, garlic, ginger, summer squash, beets, zucchini, etc in there and see how it goes with the sun beating down on that side of the house.
Friday, January 2, 2009
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